L’era post-PC, derisa da molti, con tablet e smartphone, è arrivata e l’impatto sul mercato dei PC si è rivelato maggiore di quanto molti avessero previsto. Per avere un dato di confronto: Apple ha venduto 61 milioni di iPhone nell’ultimo trimestre, contro 66,1 milioni di PC venduti in totale nel medesimo trimestre.
Wired riporta delle statistiche:
Research outfit Gartner tracked a 9.5 percent decline in shipments in the second quarter of this year compared to the same time a year ago, posting a tally of 68.4 million units. […]
Of all PC makers listed, only Apple saw year-over-year growth of 16.1 percent, IDC said, a jump likely helped by the release of the new MacBook Air and the MacBook Pro in March, and a figure that could climb even higher if Apple’s Retina-screened MacBook is a success. But to put that in perspective, Macs overall accounted for less than 10 percent of Apple’s revenue for that quarter. The iPhone? Almost 70 percent.